| Alternate Earth RQ |
Created on 15th August 2004
Last Modified on 25th November 2009
This is a companion site to the AlternateEarthRQ Yahoo Group. Whilst the Yahoo Group will, I hope, be used to develop ideas and to discuss Alternate Earth, this site will be used to host links, files and articles on RuneQuest Alternate Earth.
RuneQuest is a Fantasy Roleplaying Game from the seventies, eighties and nineties that was originally based in the world of Glorantha but started using a world called Alternate Earth for RQ3. Alternate Earth is the fantasy or mythological version of ancient earth. It is the earth where Robin Hood and Ivanhoe existed side by side, where the Greek Gods were worshipped and where adventurers can travel the known world and interact with Ancient Greece, Ancient Israel, the early Celts, Egyptians and even the lost people of Atlantis.
Many people like the idea of Alternate Earths, in other words earth where certain events have been changed. Examples include earth where Alexander the Great did not die in his thirties, or where the Nazis did not lose, or where the Aztec and Incan Empires were not conquered by the Conquistadors. These have nice ideas, especially when using Michael Moorcock's ideas from the Eternal Champion books. However, I am not so interested in these. If anyone wants to write things up for alternate earths then I will happily put them here.
Against my better judgement, I have included several links to several historical Cthulhu monographs. The blurbs seem to indicate that these have semi-historical writeups so could fit in with the Alternate Earth motif. However, I haven't bought them, even as PDFs, because I still remember being burned by Mysteries of Hungary which stated that Vlad the Impaler was an acolyte of Cthulhu or some such nonsense. If Chaosium have another sale and these are brought down to a reasonable price (around $12 for a PDF seems a lot to me) then I might buy them. If so, I'll read them and may well remove them in a fit of disgust.
At the moment, this has not a great deal available, but I hope to be
adding material on Hyperborea, Arthurian Britain and Pantheons in the near
future.
I am interested in RuneQuest writeups for things set in a form of Earth, whether ancient, modern or future based. It would be easier for me if things were in HTML format, but I can work with different formats if necessary. I do not mind what form the articles take, scenarios, monster writeups, cults and culture backgrounds are the traditional RQ fare, but anything would be good.
Please send any ideas to soltakss@yahoo.com
or join the AlternateEarthRQ group
and post any articles to the Website folder.
Alephtar Games have released Merrie England: Age of Eleanor, the first in a series of supplements set in Angevin England and written by Yours Truly (Simon Phipp).
So, with Stupor Mundi, Val-de-Loupe, Merrie England and Deus Vult, we will have four Medieval Europe settings, all at slightly different times with slightly different slants on Medieval RQ/BRP. That must be a good thing, especially if they are broadly compatible.
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RQ Pirates | A detailed setting allowing you to play Pirates in the classical pirate era - Ahar! | ||
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Land of the Samurai | A detailed setting covering Mythic Nippon (Japan) | ||
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Price of Honour | A scenario for the Land of Samurai setting | ||
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RuneQuest Slaine | A pseudo-Celtic setting based just after the last Ice Age (Very loosely Alternate Earth) | ||
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RQ Empires | A generic set of rules showing how to build and stat up Empires, with a sample writeup of the Roman Empire | ||
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RQ Guilds, Factions & Cults | A generic set of rules showing how to build and stat up Guilds, Factions and Cults, with a sample writeup of several generic guilds | Chaosium | |
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Aces High [PDF] | BRP in the Mythic Wild West | ||
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Berlin 61 [PDF] | BRP in Cold War Berlin | ||
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BRP Adventures | A number of BRP scenarios, including two for Fantasy Europe and one for Mythic Wild West | ||
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Val-de-Loup | Medieval adventures in the Heart of the Ardennes Forests. | ||
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Strange Tales of Dread & Wonder #1 [PDF] | A Cthulhu (yuk) monograph but with a Val-de-Loup scenario. | ||
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Cthulhu Dark Ages | Roleplaying in the Dark Ages using the Call of Cthulhu system and (yuk) the Cthulhu Mythos | ||
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Ravenar Sagas [PDF] | Cthulhu Dark Ages scenarios set in Norseland | ||
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The Abbey [PDF] | Cthulhu Dark Ages setting based in tenth century France | ||
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The Pastores [PDF] | A Malefic Cult for Cthulhu Dark Ages | ||
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Cthulhu Invictus | Horror Roleplaying in Ancient Rome | ||
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Malum Umbra | The First Cthulhu Invictus Companion | ||
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Extrico Tabula | The Second Cthulhu Invictus Companion | ||
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Mythic Iceland | Roleplaying in the Icelandic Sagas | Alephtar Games | |
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Stupor Mundi | Roleplaying in the World of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor - A 14th Century Fantasy Europe setting | ||
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Hounds of Adranos | A detailed scenario for Stupor Mundi | ||
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BRP Rome | Roleplaying in Republican Rome, before the Empire. This is a very detailed work and is perfectly compatible with any form of BRP/RQ. | ||
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Veni, Vidi, Vici | A PDF scenario pack for BRP Rome.. | ||
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Merrie England | Roleplaying in Merrie England in the courts of Kings Henry II, Richard I and John. | Mythic Russia | |
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Mythic Russia | Roleplaying in 15th Century Russia using HeroQuest but is easily adapted to RQ | ||
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The Birchbark Chronicles 1 | The Golden Horde | ||
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Tales From the Firebird | A Mythic Russia Fanzine from D101 Games (Newt Newport) which was coming out but is sadly no more. | Other | |
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Warlords of Alexander | BRP Rules for gaming in Greece/Asia Minor for post-Alexandrian setting | ||
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The Savage North | OpenQuest Rules for gaming in The Savage North - not Conan, oh no, not at all | ||
Hyperboria |
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| Gods of Hyperboria | The Gods of Hyperboria by John F. Pare' | |
Pantheons |
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| Pantheons | Pantheons of Alternate Earth by Simon E. Phipp | |
| Deities | Deities of Alternate Earth by Simon E. Phipp | |
Age of Arthur |
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| Age of Arthur | RuneQuest in the time of King Arthur by Simon E. Phipp | |
| Pantheons | Pantheons for the Age of Arthur by Simon E. Phipp | |
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| Meta-Outline1 | A sample outline of a culture | |
When I have time, I will be putting links to other websites concerning Alternate Earth,
cultures, cult writeups and new spells here.
Ancient Egypt |
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| Valley of the Pharaohs | A free rpg with alot of useful maps and info. |
| Egypt Campaign | A campaign based on a world heavily modelled on Ancient Egypt and Dark Africa |
| Egypt Campaign | AD&D material for the above campaign |
| Canaanite/Ugaritic Mythology | Ancient Israel Background |
Cathay (Mythical China) |
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| Roleplaying in Mythical China | Ancient China (BRP) |
| Chinese BRP | BRP Rules for Ancient China (In French) |
| Outlaws of the Water Margin | Rolegame set in Song China (AD 960-1279). It really captures the flavour of China. |
| Cathay Arts of Role-Playing | A fairly complex rolegame set in Qing China (AD 1644-1911). Interesting detail with regard to religion, mythology, etc. |
| Romance of the Three Kingdoms | An easily adaptable d20 rolegame set in the Three Kingdoms era (AD 220-265) |
| Song China Game Write-Ups | Originally for 'Outlaws' - can be used with any Chinese culture rolegame |
| Wu Xing | The Chinese five-element theory |
| Chinese Religions | Information on Chinese Religions (French) |
Classical Greece |
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| Warlords of Alexander | BRP Rules for gaming in Greece/Asia Minor for post-Alexandrian setting |
| A Gazetteer of Mythic Greece | A nice map and descriptions of the major places of Mythic Greece |
Homeric Greece |
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| Greek Pantheon | A description of the Greek Pantheon and myths |
| Hercules Columns | Latest discoveries about Ulysses' voyages - in Italian |
| Odysseus | Odysseus' Voyage (In French) |
| The Aeneid | The Aeneid |
| The Iliad | Homer's Iliad |
| The Odyssey | Homer's Odyssey |
| Titan's Cradle | A version of the Pavic Cradle scenario for Mycenaean Greece |
Atlantis |
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| Twilight of Atlantis | Avalanche Press (Avalon Hill incarnation) supplement |
Ancient Rome |
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| RomeQuest | A version of Ancient Rome using RQ - in Spanish |
| PBEM Game | PBEM Game set in 1st Century Rome using RQ rules |
Fantasy Europe |
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| De Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum | A D100/BRP setting set in the Crusader States between the First and Second Crusades |
| Val-de-Loup | A Medieval Setting for Chaosium's Basic Roleplaying System (BRP) - Adventures in the Heart of the Ardennes Forests |
Miscellaneous Links |
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| Christopher B. Siren | A vast list of mythologies and a huge numer of links |
| Mythology and Religion | A collection of links to a multitude of mythologies etc. |
| Encyclopedia Mythica | Mythology, folklore, and legends organized by continent |
| Early British Kingdoms | A useful look at the Post-Roman British Kingdoms |
| Maps | Ancient Maps |
| PBEM | PBEM Game set in feudal Japan using RQ rules |
| Hyperboria | |
| http://hyboria.xoth.net/index.htm
http://www.warbarron.com/index.php http://home.thezone.net/~jgillard/ http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/hosted/adilbrand/conan.htm http://www.cswnet.com/~dbruce/conan/contents.html http://www.dodgenet.com/~moonblossom/index.html http://www.tarkan.4mg.com/gods.html http://www.reality.com/hwpcont.htm http://www.angelfire.com/sk/darthreiko/index8.html http://www.rehupa.com/index.htm http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/appconan.htm http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/apphybgod.htm http://conan.createl.net/ http://www.barbariankeep.com/conan.html http://scarlet-blades.com/ |
Various links to Hyperborian sites relating to adventuring in Conan's world.
As I check them out, I will amend the descriptions. |
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